[Gllug] XF86Config-4 and ATI R128

[Axel Segebrecht]

To be honest, i don't recall.

I think Matthew (theNut) and I managed to get it sorted after fiddling
around with the Xconf,etc. But that's long ago... .

Axel

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 10:17, George Saxby wrote:
> Axel,
> well that rules out thr "stuffed RAM"  theory if wingoze make it work.
> seems to be a linux driver hiccup.
> IF you had the same prob with the G400 did you ask the list then if so the answer may be in the archive.....................
> 
> George F. Saxby
> Systems Engineer
> I.T.S. Team
> 
> >>> axel at segebrecht.co.uk 01/30/03 10:09am >>>
> Well, I remember having a similar problem with my old Matrox G400 - but
> that's more than a year ago and I can't remember what I did to fix it
> (d'oh!).
> 
> Just upgraded from it to the new ATI - which works a dream in windozzze.
> 
> Axel
> 
> On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 09:57, George Saxby wrote:
> > Axel,
> > Can you borrow another card that is known to work at 1024 /32, I had a similar problem awhile ago and the video ram was stuffed.
> > 
> > George F. Saxby
> > Systems Engineer
> > I.T.S. Team
> > 
> > >>> axel at segebrecht.co.uk 01/30/03 09:47am >>>
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've tried a lot of things - including wrestling with all the info I
> > could google - yet my desktop refuses to present itself in anything else
> > than 16bit/1024x756/60hz ;'(
> > 
> > Setting the XF86Config-4 to display in 24/1024/75hz doesn't work, in
> > fact anything different from 16bit doesn't seem to be working. Also, the
> > refresh rate (although set manually and according to my monitors spec's)
> > doesn't want to change to something a little less eye-watering.
> > 
> > Furthermore, q3a doesn't seem to load with full hardware support, which
> > is odd as I 'appear' to have all the correct modules/etc for it to run
> > nicely.
> > 
> > BTW. Running glxgears gives me on average: 500 frames in 5.0 seconds =
> > 100.000 FPS (max I've seen was 900 frames in 5.0 seconds = 180.000 FPS),
> > which is nice.
> > 
> > I'm running Debian (Knoppix) with Sid/testing/unstable (thanks to zimm
> > for helping me with upgrading).
> > 
> > Help is much appriciated (as always). Can't work at 60hz for long as my
> > eyes start watering quite a lot after half an hour.
> > 
> > MTIA
> > 
> > Axel
> > 
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> 
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